100 General, upon submission by the Institution Director, will be authorized to release convicts if they behaved well at the institution level and if five years from the date of release have elapsed without the released committing any crime, only then the release shall be definitive and the penalty obliterated. Second; full or partial pardoning of the convict's penalty in accordance with controls specified by the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies most significantly by proving sound conduct of the convict to either commute sentence or to stay of its execution. This pardoning is normally connected with national or religious events to make prisoners and their families happy on these occasions. The Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies had issued during 2009 pardon decisions concerning some prisoners. A large number of convicts of different nationalities benefited from these decisions.